SWK: 8408 Statistics I for Social Work
~Avoid the top of the Bell Curve - Everyone there is Normal~
Gia Elise Barboza-Salerno, MA, MS, JD, PhD
barboza-salerno.1@osu.edu
The Ohio State University
Colleges of Public Health & Social Work
Autumn 2023
Class Website
- Introduce Me
- Introduce You
- Class Policies & Procedures
- Assessment
- violence & victims
- drug fatality & overdose
- systems overlap
- trauma sequelae
- spatial & spatiotemporal analyses
- latent variable models
- structural equation models
- multilevel models
- socio-ecological
- social vulnerability
- polyvictimization
- anti-racist
An Introduction to Statistical Methods and Data Analysis, 6th Edition. Lyman Ott and Micheal T. Longnecker, Duxbury, 2010; ISBN-13: 978-1305269477
OpenIntro: Data Sets and Supplemental Functions from 'OpenIntro' Textbooks and Labs. Çetinkaya-Rundel M, Diez D, Bray A, Kim A, Baumer B, Ismay C, Paterno N, Barr C (2023).
- Meeting times
- We will meet in person on Fridays from 1-3:45.
- Note: There will be times when we have to meet on Zoom
- Exams
- There will be a midterm exam on
- There will be an optional final exam
- Assignments
- Upload to Canvas by 11:59pm on due date
- Lowest grade will be dropped
- Labs
- There will be a midterm exam on
- There will be an optional final exam
ALL materials will be available on Canvas, my databootcamp website or my github repository
- Syllabus
- Announcements
- Lecture slides/notes
- Homework
- Exam and Assignment Schedules
- Data sets for labs and homework
- R code, JASP files
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R: IMHO the best statistical analysis tool ever created (yes, better than python for statistics)
- I will be covering both R and RStudio (the GUI for R) and they can be downloaded here RStudio Desktop - Posit
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JASP - A Fresh Way to Do Statistics (jasp-stats.org)
- "Just Another Statistics Program" JASP offers another great alternative to SPSS
- In some ways JASP is better than jamovi, but it seems less stable and so it is my second best option
- There are some benefits to using JASP including flexibility in making plots and nice visualizations for the statistical analyses you are conducting
- Click here to download JASP
- JASP in particular provides a great way to both learn statistics and R at the same time
- Let's take a look at the data library in JASP now
OSU has obtained a license for the following software packages:
- SPSS: its like a necessary evil - everyone must know how to use SPSS. There are some things that are actually easier in SPSS
- SAS: ugh!
- EXCEL: can be great to clean your data, particularly if you use the built-in functions.
- jmp: this is a very cool data science program from the makers of SAS (the archaic and soon to be extinct software program)
Visit OBF @ OSU to download these packages
- Open Source
- QGIS: "Quantum Geographical Information Systems" allows you to do geospatial analysis like a (ArcGIS) pro -- QGIS is great for creating, editing, visualizing, analyzing and publishing geospatial information
- The Applications (qgis.org) page gives you a sense of all the cool things you can do with QGIS
- ArcGIS Map, Pro
Let's look at some applications that demonstrate what these packages do
- Web scraping
- Data Wrangling
- Map making
- Visualization
- Statistical Analyses
Allows you to create a dataset or download lots of data quickly
- Using RSelenium & Docker to Analyze Child Fatality and Non-Fatalities in Pennsylvania | by Big Data for Social Justice
Allows you to visualize lots of data quickly
- Mining the “Indian Child Welfare Act” (ICWA) using Harvard Law School’s Caselaw API| by Big Data for Social Justice | Medium
Allows you to analyze lots of data quickly
- Analyzing Places Data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
- It would be great to now merge this data with data from DataOhio
Lahaina, Maui (August, 2023)
Sources
For today's lab
- Make sure you have all required software for the course (Excel, SPSS, R and JASP)
- Complete the pre-course self-assessment and upload your responses to canvas
- Navigate the weblinks and datasets presented in this file